Blade of the Immortal Illustration collection

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Published at June 27, 2008 in Anime, Illustration, books and manga. 14 Comments

I must have waited almost half my life for this book to be published. Finally, the full collection of Samura Hiroaki’s Blade of the Immortal illustrations -

Certainly the publishers must have timed the release to coincide with the upcoming anime adaptation of Blade. Read about the anime adaptation here.

Samura Hiroaki draws the most beautiful hands – I use to study his poses and am still influenced by his style of drawing these days.

You can get a copy of the book here.

For fans of Samura Hiroaki’s artwork, you might also be interested in “Brutal Love”, another illustration artbook by him with a much darker, adult theme featuring bondage and nudity. You can get a copy here.

14 Responses to “Blade of the Immortal Illustration collection”

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1 tragic comedy
Jun 30th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

Picked this up from the local kinokuniya the other day…good stuff.
I want his other artbook, ‘love of the brute’
2 Roguscatum
Jul 30th, 2008 at 1:32 pm

Where should do you think i can get conect with the story… via media…
3 Spike
Aug 6th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

I’ll def. be picking this one up. Already have Love of the Brute. Keep your eyes open on ebay for it…you’ll be paying for it though. Cost me $109.00
4 4L3)(
Aug 18th, 2008 at 11:54 pm

These are beautiful.
Definitely a MUST HAVE!!
Thanks for pointing it out
5 Love of Brute
Sep 11th, 2008 at 1:15 am

I actually have a copy of the Love of Brute and am considering to sell it. If you want it, I’m willing to let go of it for $80.
6 KURO
Nov 14th, 2008 at 10:15 pm

IT’S A GREAT MANGA !
thanks for the illustrations ^ ^
7 Sonya
Feb 15th, 2009 at 5:03 am

omygoddddddd! can you PLEASEEEEEEEEEEE sell me this book or at least somebody help me buy this book and i’ll pay you! i don’t have that kinokuniya whatever book store since i am from Canada! boo that! been wanting this! pleaseee help anyone! in appreciation for your help!!!!
8 FYI
Aug 9th, 2009 at 2:27 pm

just to let everyone know Dark Horse is going to publish this in english as a hardcover in the near future

“The Art of Blade of the Immortal—Hardcover edition of the original Japanese book with 32 new bonus pages not previously available. This book will be in the style of the Dark Horse The Art of . . . and Library Edition series.”

from http://www.activeanime.com/html/content/view/5356/36/